She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either – a purely human one.
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I’m not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.
I firmly believe that you can’t get a good movie without risking a bad movie.
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.
As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.
Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.
I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they’d be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest.
Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I’ve written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn’t rule out realistic novels in the future!
There are some mechanisms that are so – so broken that they cannot be repaired.
It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.
When somebody tells you there’s something wrong with your book they’re almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they’re almost always wrong.
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.